Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-06-25
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GENERAL UPRISING.
How the q. A. R. Boys Feel on
the Trophy Question.
Special Correspondence of the ~IsrER-OcEAN.I
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The battle
flags are furled, in the Parliament of Man,
the federation ofthe world. Idon't sup-f
pose that when Tennyson wrote his
Locksley Hall he dipped into the future
far enough to see that there would be an
American imbroglio anent the flags cap
tured during the rebellion; or as it is |
more mildly termed the conflict between
the states. But there have been the most
stirring times here you ever saw. The
Grand Army of the Republic made this
city. hotter than love in harvest under a
full moon. They made the telegraph !
wires seeth with protests, and the local
posts marched to their headquarters and
almost lifted the roofoff their hall. Peo-
pie gathered on the corners and dis
cussed the situation i'll the most ener-
getic AMI Itreminds us of the days
of '6l. Mr.. Cleveland withdrew his or
der just in the nick of time. He sent it
downto the rooms of the associated press
just before six o'clock in tho evening, |
with u request that it be Immediately
put upon the wires, and it was SO. The
Grand Army posts were melting all over
the land, and would have fired denunci-
atory broadsides into the white house;
but the news reached them that the pres
ident had withdrawn his order, and they
could do nothing. Their teeth were
drawn.
1t is generally conceded thatCleveland's
mistake has cost him a second term. It
has not materially injured the solid
south ; but it is believed to have turned
the tables so against Cleveland that he
will not be re-nominated. Politicians
claim that Cleyeland was misled by an
adjutant general and a secretary of war,
and that he is not personally to blame !;
but they recognize the fact that the first
impression always lasts, and that the
first impression was that it was an order
which originated with Cleveland, and
the old soldiers are down OH him per-
sonally. Hence they will not care to re-
nominate him, for fear that he will be so
actively opposed by the Grand Army
that he will be defeated. That is the way
the politicians look at the matter.
There have been assaults all along the
line during the past week for the offices.
There is the Grand Forks land office. It
will go to "Honest Tom White'' one of
these days but the president delays
action on it continually. 1t is a good
office, up to the maximum Of fees, and
worth a cool $4,000 a year. Then there is
the Grand Forks p~ostofice, held by
Donald Mac Donald. The mar who will
get that place has not been decided upon,
for the simple reason that there is not
going to be a change right away. Mac
will hold the office until the end
of his term. That is about decided upon
and I haye said it over and over again !;
yet the faithful continue their assaults
and try to fret the postmaster with their
''rumors."
Charlie Frost has become an intimate
friend of Gen. Sparks, and is said to CO.
incide with Sparks on all of his rulings.
Day hates Sparks, and loves Frost.
Sparks hates Day and loves Frost.
Queer combination. elbow happy he'd
be with either were t'other dear charmer
away" With Villas, also, Frost seems
to be on intimate terms. He goes into
his office unannounced, like Il senator.
He has gotten onto the inside someway,
and seems to be tlourishing like a green
bay tree. He says that he wouldn't take
an office now for anything. Doing
better.
DR.. Bland, the friend ofthe Indian and
the enemy of the white man, is prancing
all over New England featuring OH tho
Indian question and abusing the Dawes
bills-the bill for disnosing of the In
dian problem by compulsory civilization
and distribution of the land n seyeralty, /
and the bill for the opening of the Sioux
reservation. When the doctor how's
about the rights Of tho Indians he does
not stop long enough to permit Ills al
legged brain to conceive a idea concern
ing the rights of the whites. He ought
to have had al interview with Mayor
Hewitt of New York on the subject,
There was a corporation which refused
to relay their street car pavements with
new rough stone, but wanted to strew
sand on the old roadway, because, as
they said, 'the horses slip and hurt
themselves on stones, and we are obliged
to remember the rights of the dumb an
imals." That was very plausible, but
Mayor Hewitt replied, eyes, and 1 am
obliged to look after the rights of the
human beings in New York, and they |
shall not have sand blown into their eyes
and all oyer their houses OH your ac- I
count. You can put two horses on IL car |
instead Of making one horse do two
horses work, and you can relay your
roadway with rough stones. and it will
cost You money; but the rights of the
people must be considered before the
rights of horses.' In like manner it
may be said that the rights of the pro-
gressive white men must be considered !
in preference to the wishes Of the law /
Indians. DIR. Bland tells the people OIL
New England that the Indians are inca
pable of civilization, and ought not to be
compelled to take farms. 1t might be
added to the remarks of the Indians
friend that the worthless savages never
will be capable of civilization as long as
the government provides for them and |